# Chapter 3. My window disappeared. Where did it go?

With many graphical user interfaces, the iconfy button will erase the window that the program is running in and create, instead, an icon on the desktop. KDE does not do this.

Instead, when a window is ``iconified'', it is simply hidden (but the program is still running).

There are two ways to get the window back:

1. If you're running the taskbar part of kpanel, you can choose to have a list of tasks displayed on your desktop. Iconified tasks have their names surrounded by parenthesis.

2. If you click the middle mouse button on an empty space in the root window, kwm will give you a list of all available tasks (and again, the names of iconified tasks are bracketed).